Microsoft
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Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics market with Zune and the Windows Phone OS.
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Decline and Fall of the Google Empire: Revisited
Google built an internet empire built on search advertising. But now that empire is maturing and its founders are backing mobile operating systems, social networking and cloud computing solutions as ways to write Google into the future of the internet. Will they succeed?
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No respite for HP, Dell in Windows 8: BMO
(Reuters) - Microsoft's long-awaited launch of the Windows 8 OS may not change the fortunes of PC makers, BMO analysts said, lowering their price targets on the stocks of Hewlett-Packard Co and Dell Inc.
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A new way to make six figures on the Web: teaching
Miguel Hernandez, the founder of a company specializing in explanatory videos for startups, said he spent about three hours a day for three weeks making an online video course explaining his craft. But, last year, that one video series earned him nearly six figures on the online course platform Udemy.
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Google revamps U.S. search
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google is revamping the way it handles searches in the United States to give users quick access to answers without leaving the page, the company said.
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Response: Will We Really Grow Display By Incentivizing Low Bidding?
"The Sell-Sider" is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Today's column is in response to "Second-Guessing the Second-Price Auction Model" and written by Jonathan Wolf, Chief Buying Officer at Criteo, a buy-side, display ad tech company. Esco Strong at Microsoft wrote an interesting piece in a personal capacity on this [.
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Ad execs say jury still out on Facebook as medium
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - General Motors Inc's decision to stop advertising on Facebook may be a wake-up call for the No. 1 social network, but Top advertising executives say it's far too early to know if the site will take off as an advertising platform.
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Ad execs say jury still out on Facebook as medium
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - General Motors Inc's decision to stop advertising on Facebook may be a wake-up call for the No. 1 social network, but Top advertising executives say it's far too early to know if the site will take off as an advertising platform.
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Android over 50% of smartphone sales as Nokia and RIM feel strain
Samsung and Apple dominate sector but analysts say that turmoil could follow in UK as 22m people prepare to get a new mobile device in the coming 12 months.
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Google revamps U.S. search
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google is revamping the way it handles searches in the United States to give users quick access to answers without leaving the page, the company said.
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WatchESPN app now works for Comcast customers; ESPN denies talks with Apple to bring WatchESPN to the Apple TV; Comcast turns on Skype in Boston & Seattle
The cable sports giant, ESPN, updated its WatchESPN universal iOS app last week to include the fact that Comcast cable customers can now utilize the app.
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Can Yell turn online around with self-serve marketing?
Yell. com and Yellow Pages operator Yell Group is acquiring UK point-and-click website builder Moonfruit, as it tries to salvage even digital classifieds that are in reverse.
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